Elizabeth, I have some scraps of dark purple silk left over from John's cavalier outfit.
Cheers, Aylwen On 26/4/07 6:22 PM, "Elizabeth Walpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's perfect, thanks Heather. I'll ask around for a small scrap of purple > silk which we can claim is a piece of the miraculous chasuble, I'm sure > somebody in the Barony will have something, and a piece less than an inch in > size would certainly not be missed. I don't really need to document this (we > had several joking suggestions for what the relic should be from our last > meeting, including faking one of his bones from play-dough) but I wanted to > know for my own benefit before I put out a general call for fabric scraps. > Elizabeth > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Heather Rose Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:00 PM > Subject: Re: [h-cost] 7th century silk? > > If it helps, there is a surviving 8th c. chasuble associated with St. > Ebbo held at the cathedral museum at Sens, France. It's made of silk > and is described in: > > Chartraire, E. 1897. Inventaire du Tressor de l'église Primatiale > et Métropolitaine de Sens. Paul Duchemin, Sens > > This source only has a text description. I don't seem to have a > mention of it in my notes from when I was at the museum, so it may > not have been on display at that time. There is also a silk dalmatic > associated with St. Ebbo held there which (now) is a sort of slate- > blue in color (the fabric is a tabby weave, not particularly glossy, > as I recall) and is trimmed by -- I kid you not -- narrow bands of > woven trim in a "rainbow" pattern (i.e., half a dozen different > colored stripes in parallel). > > For what that's worth. > > Heather > > > > > > > E-mail message checked by PC Tools Spyware Doctor (5.0.0.182) > Database version: 5.07160 > http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
